| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. |
| Ability | I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. |
| Advice | Dreams are the touchstones of our character. |
| Advice | Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. |
| Advice | Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. |
| Age | None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
| Amusement | A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. |
| Books and Reading | Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. |
| Buying | Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. |
| Cats | What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? |
| Change | Things do not change; we change. |
| Change | Things do not change, we do. |
| Charity | Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. |
| Charity | If you give money, spend yourself with it. |
| Conformity | Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. |
| Conformity | If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. |
| Immortality | I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. |
| Despair | A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. |
| Desperation | Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. |
| Disappointments | If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. |
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